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...black leaders, and so giving rise to a newly militant opposition. Today, after a quarter-century of struggle and despite recent promises of reform by President P.W. Botha, violence still holds sway in the divided land. The killings outside Uitenhage represented the bloodiest single episode since a wave of unrest began sweeping across the country last year. They also triggered more rioting at week's end in nearby townships, where angry mobs killed at least seven blacks they accused of being accomplices of the minority white government. In addition, they set fire to the homes of several black policemen. Five...
...government increased the general sales tax from 10% to 12%, double the level of a year ago. Days later, at Vaal Reefs, the world's largest gold mine, black workers struck for higher pay, in defiance of the mine's management, who insisted that the walkout was illegal. As unrest continued in several black townships, Winnie Mandela, wife of imprisoned Black Leader Nelson Mandela, said in a television interview that she foresaw nothing but more bloodshed: "I am afraid one can only visualize very tragic times ahead of us if the government is not prepared to dismantle apartheid...
Even if the government is seeking reform of apartheid, it seems certain to come into further violent confrontations with its foes. Both the rioting and the police sweep worked in effect toward a common end: fanning the flames of unrest. "When I see people dying like that," said one black as he surveyed the debris in Crossroads, "I feel something burning inside...
...foreign figures like Dag Hammarskjold and Anwar Sadat. Soviet ties to guerrilla groups are so well known that the Kalashnikov submachine gun has become the symbol for international terrorism. The U.S.S.R. continues training terrorists within and beyond its borders to subvert stable nations and particularly to feed upon unrest in the Third World...
SASC, which was founded in the 70's during widespread student unrest, will work towards increasing participation in a national divestiture day rally on April 4th, he said...